ST MARTINS PREPARATORY SCHOOL

ST MARTINS PREPARATORY SCHOOL, 63, BARGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379368
Date first listed:: 30-Jun-1999
List Entry Name:: ST MARTINS PREPARATORY SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: ST MARTINS PREPARATORY SCHOOL, 63, BARGATE

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Date:: 2005-05-06
Reference:: IOE01/13389/31
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379368
Date first listed:: 30-Jun-1999
List Entry Name:: ST MARTINS PREPARATORY SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: ST MARTINS PREPARATORY SCHOOL, 63, BARGATE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ST MARTINS PREPARATORY SCHOOL, 63, BARGATE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TA 26602 08164

Details

GRIMSBY

TA2608SE BARGATE 699-1/29/10 (East side) No.63 St Martin's Preparatory School

GV II

House, now school. 1901 for George William Goddard, ship chandler; possibly by HC Scaping of Grimsby. Red brick with ashlar dressings; green slate roof. Cast-iron veranda to west front; wooden conservatory. Edwardian Freestyle. Approximately rectangular on plan: 2 rooms to main west front; 2-room, central entrance-hall south front with conservatory to south-east corner. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. West front of 4 irregular bays, with recessed central bay between projecting single-bay sections with a turret to the right corner. Central bay has cross-window flanked by single-light windows; elaborate veranda with slender quatrefoil columns, openwork arches and balustraded balcony. Bay to left has 4-light window with lintel and elaborate carved panel above. Bay to right has cross window and narrow transomed windows to turret. String course, first-floor sill band. Central bay has French window to balcony with carved relief panel above. Left bay has first-floor canted bay window with a tall parapet ramped up to coped piers with cast-iron railings; right bay has cross-window beneath stylized open pediment. Turret has narrow transomed windows linked by flush band and string course. Balustraded parapet to central bay, shaped coped gables to side bays with flush bands and elaborate relief panels with date and monogram; ball finials. Turret has parapet with ball finials and stylized acutely-angled triangular open pediments containing miniature obelisks; tall octagonal spire. Windows throughout have original plate-glass, moulded mullions and transoms and moulded lintels, some with stylized open pediments. Roof stack and end stack to left with central ribs and corniced ashlar caps. Right return, forming south entrance front, has main entrance with brick pilasters and an ashlar Doric surround with a segmental pediment and carved tympanum. Above this is a cross-window and an elaborate gable similar to that on the west front, with obelisks and scrollwork relief, balustraded parapet and segmental pedimented section with ball finial. To the right, a projecting gabled section with a ground-floor canted bay window. Conservatory to rear right, 3 bays with

central canted bay: moulded brick plinth, continuous ashlar sill band, wooden upper section with fluted pilasters, moulded cornice; round-headed plate-glass windows with columned mullions and small-paned panels above. INTERIOR: staircase hall has arcaded screen with fluted square columns, wooden imperial staircase with square Ionic column balusters. Main rooms have original chimneypieces, ornate plasterwork cornices and arches, especially elaborate in the ground-floor north-west room, which also has deeply coved ceiling with dentilated cornice and dado panelling. A good example of a house built for one of the entrepreneurs connected with the Grimsby fishing industry. (Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local architectural or historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.126; Grimsby Planning Department: Wellow Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.126).

Listing NGR: TA2660208164

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Legacy System number:: 478747
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.